GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a vs ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1331not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.03no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV610C78
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 June 2007 (17 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4016
Core clock speed525 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors180 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate2.1004.000
Floating-point processing power0.042 TFLOPS0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCI
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2007 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 65 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 40 Watt

ATI HD 2400 PRO has an age advantage of 2 months, a 23.1% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2400 PRO and GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a. We've got no test results to judge.


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